Pope advised not to use term ‘Rohingya’ in Myanmar but rights groups disagree
Arakan News Agency Leading figures in the Catholic Church and international politics have advised Pope Francis not to use the term Rohingya during a trip to Myanmar due to political sensitivities but human rights groups want him to uphold international law on self-identity. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled Myanmar following a military […]
Tillerson, in Myanmar, calls for credible probe of atrocities
Arakan News Agency U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on Wednesday for a credible investigation into reports of human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims committed by Myanmar’s security forces after a meeting with its civilian and military leaders. More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a […]
US Holocaust Museum says evidence of genocide against Rohingya in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The United States Holocaust Museum says there is “mounting evidence” of genocide in Myanmar, after a year-long investigation with Southeast Asia rights group Fortify Rights into atrocities against persecuted Rohingya Muslims. The report, published on Wednesday and based on more than 200 interviews with Rohingya and aid workers, says Myanmar’s security forces […]
UN chief meets Myanmar’s Suu Kyi on Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency UN chief Antonio Guterres urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to return, when they met Tuesday at a summit in the Philippines, his office said. The meeting added to global pressure on Suu Kyi to take action to end the crisis for the Muslim minority, […]
Myanmar assures ASEAN nations it is attending to Rohingya
Arakan News Agency A Philippine official says Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has assured other Southeast Asian nations that her government is implementing the recommendations of a commission led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the situation in Arakan state, where more than half a million Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh. […]
Last exit from Myanmar, Rohingya wait for weeks on beach
Arakan News Agency Some 1,000 Rohingya Muslims desperate to leave Myanmar are camped on this exposed, sun-baked beach on the Bay of Bengal waiting for a boat to carry them to sanctuary in Bangladesh. Having kept northern parts of Arakan State virtually off limits since it launched a counter-insurgency operation there in late August, Myanmar’s […]
Brazilian envoy terms Rohingya persecution as ‘atrocities of the millennium’
Arakan News Agency Brazilian Ambassador in Dhaka Joao Tabajara de Oliveira Junior has described the persecution of Rohingya ethnic minority by Myanmar security forces as ‘atrocities of the millennium’. “This is something difficult to understand. This is unthinkable. Rohingya persecution is atrocities of the millennium,” he said at a view-exchange meeting at the Daily Sun […]
U.N. official says will raise sexual violence against Rohingya with ICC
Arakan News Agency A senior United Nations official said on Sunday she would raise the issue of persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority, especially sexual violence and torture, with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary- General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, also said around $10 million is needed immediately to […]
UNICEF: Rohingya children refugees face ‘hell on eart
Arakan News Agency UNICEF says the children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar are seeing a “hell on earth” in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. The U.N. children’s agency issued a report that documents the plight of children who account for […]
U2 Call On Aung San Suu Kyi To Take Action In Myanmar
Arakan News Agency U2 have called on Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to fight harder against serious violence being inflicted by security forces against Rohingya Muslims. The musicians posted a lengthy plea aimed at the Nobel Peace Prize laureate – after saying they had tried several times to reach out to her directly. […]
EU top diplomat to visit Rohingya camps Nov 19th
Arakan News Agency The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will be paying a visit to Bangladesh on November 19th. Federica Mogherini, also vice-president of the commission, will visit Rohingya camps at Kutupalong in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar, according to sources at the European Union Embassy in Dhaka.
Red Cross warns short-term aid for Rohingya refugees not enough
Arakan News Agency In Myanmar’s Arakan State, more than half a million Rohingya have been displaced by a military offensive. Some have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, but many have remained on Myanmar’s side of the border. While groups like the Red Cross are doing what they can to help, they are also warning their help […]
Ambassador Jazairy: “Myanmar’s Rohingyas are denied the right to have rights”
Arakan News Agency The Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue (hereinafter “The Geneva Centre”) Ambassador Idriss Jazairy emphasized – during a lecture on 10 November at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies – that the denial of equal citizenship rights to the Rohingya population is breeding radicalization and […]